Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is pregnant with her first child after years of struggling with a reproductive disorder, according to Us.
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A rep for the 39-year-old author, actress and former model told the magazine: "As a result of her condition, this pregnancy has been referred to by her physician as nothing short of a medical miracle, and due to its delicate nature, we ask/implore the press to respect Ms. Lakshmi's privacy at this time."
Lakshmi has endometriosis, a disorder of the female reproductive system in which the endometrium, which normally lines the uterus, grows in other places as well. Often, this growth is on the fallopian tubes, ovaries or the tissue lining the pelvis. The condition can ...
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It was a steaming hot day outside the Nokia Theater for the 2009 Emmy Awards, but that didn't stop A-listers from coming out in droves to celebrate television's biggest night of the year.
Count down our top five fashion hits and misses from the red carpet and weigh in on your picks after the jump.
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Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi has signed a development deal to create a half-hour comedy, according to Variety.
Check out Padma's outrageous fashions over the past five seasons of Top Chef
Playing off her Top Chef background, the show will star Lakshmi as a ...
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This season of Top Chef (premieres Wednesday at 10 pm/ET on Bravo) is all about the apple — the Big Apple. With the world-famous food mecca as the background, the chefs of the Emmy-nominated competitive reality show are the most diverse, facing some of the toughest (and coolest) guest judges to date.
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So does the U.K.'s media minister, who has made the shocking announcement that he is banning all product placement on British TV shows, according to Variety.Despite the practice having already been approved by the European Union, Andy Burnham, the secretary of state at the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport, said that he won't allow it to "contaminate" the favorable international reputation of British programming. "There is a risk that, at the very moment when television needs to do all it can to show it can be trusted, that we elide the distinction between programs and adverts," he said.I understand the chap's point; it's definitely a slippery slope. I am an avid TiVo user who is delirious with glee at the prospect of getting through an ep of Grey's Anatomy in 40-odd minutes. (Sidenote: Has anyone noticed there are "un-skippable" commercials now? Benjamin Moore Paints, I curse thee!) Plus, most product placement on TV is so obvious and bombastic, it takes me out of the moment ...
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